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Foil 16 The Need For Supercomputing - Some Examples

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox


1 Scientists - Verify or disprove things and get their work done faster...
2 Engineers - Simulate things (Car, drugs, aeroplanes...) in ever greater detail before producing expensive prototypes or production systems
3 Retailers - Examine sales records to tailor there marketing and production needs to the most lucrative market.
4 Airlines - Optimise the carriage of passengers on their aircraft - fill flights, understand route-trends, mine data for valuable information.
5 Financiers - Make vast profits by capitalising on the intelligent probabilistic prediction of stock mark shares faster than their competitors.
6 Consumers - Access to movies, down load to the home.

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